Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Ken Schneider <kschneider@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:41, J. van Eck (Systeembeheer) wrote:
>  This is what is in my /etc/fstab file
> 
>  /dev/sda3            /                    reiserfs   defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/sda1            /boot                ext2       defaults              1
> 2
> /dev/sda2            swap                 swap       pri=42                0
> 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0
> 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0
> 0
> /dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         auto       ro,noauto,user,exec   0
> 0
> /dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       noauto,user,sync      0
> 0
>  usbdevfs        /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs        noauto 0 0
> 
>  i donot see anything in this file that can be of the tape drive??
> 
>  can anyone help me??
> 
>  thxs
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "John Pettigrew" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:30 PM
> > Subject: [SLE] Re: newbe wants to backup to scsi-device
> >
> >
> > > In a previous message, "J. van Eck (Systeembeheer)"
> <j.vaneck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > but when I try to access the device /dev/st0 with eg:
> > > >
> > > > mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> > > >
> > > > mt returns the message "No such device".
> > >
> > > Which suggests that it's somewhere other than /dev/st0. Is it in your
> > > /etc/fstab file?
> > >

"/dev/st0" will not show up in an fstab file as it is NOT a mountable
device, this is a tape drive. -st = scsi tape-

Make sure that the tape drive is turned on when you start the machine,
assuming it is external, or it will not be seen by the system.

-- 
Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998